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The Ardennes

D'Ardennen

2015

Robin Pront

Veerle Baetens, Kevin Janssens, Jeroen Perceval, Eric Godon ...

6.4

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Thriller. Drama After a bungled burglary, Dave (Jeroen Perceval) is forced to run away, leaving his brother Kenneth (Kevin Janssens) behind, who then receives a four-year prison sentence but does not snitch on his brother. When he gets out, he fully intends to restart his life from where he left off with it. But inevitably, the situation has changed: Sylvie (Veerle Baetens), his girlfriend, doesn’t want to see him anymore, and Dave, who is now ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"A nagging sense that Pront is more taken with simplistic menace and violence over nuanced characterization and story bears out in the final act, which veers dispiritedly into Coens-meets-Tarantino territory."	NEG
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Even though, in retrospect, 'The Ardennes' feels a little obvious and secondhand, it unfolds with enough speed and wit to hold your attention."	NEU
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"Well-crafted up to a point. But the end to which it is crafted is utterly useless (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"The film, as though infected by his indecision, slumps in the middle, only to compensate with a final act, set in the wooded region of the title, that feels rich in kills and overkills."	NEU
United States	AV Club	"First-time director Robin Pront serves up plenty of brooding atmosphere, but the screenplay, adapted from a stage play by Pront and Jeroen Perceval (...) never succeeds in eluding genre cliché."	NEG

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